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And It Was Told of a Certain Potter 
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Abd Allah, Healer, Teacher 

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Run Outdoors and Look Up 



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You Sent That Letter, 
Didn’t You? 







CONTENTS 

Page 

You Sent That Letter, Didn’t You? . 9 

Realization 17 

Your Talent 25 

I Am That Which I Desire to Be . 33 

Camilla ....... 39 

Before the Sandman Comes ... 49 

My Cup Runneth Over . . . .57 

The Other Fellow ..... 65 

A Divided Kingdom 73 

Let There Be Light 81 
















You Sent That Letter, Didn’t You? 


OU sent that letter this morning, 
didn’t you? You carefully wrote 
it, addressed and sealed it, and 
then you dropped it in the box. You 
didn’t have a string tied to it, did you? 
No, you just dropped it in the box and 
went on your way. You didn’t think 
that the box was especially burglar- 
proof, did you? And you didn’t won- 
der how it would get from the box to 
the postoffice, and from the postoffice to 
the train, did you? You didn’t spend 
all that morning worrying about 
whether the train would arrive with it, 
did you? No, you dropped it light- 
heartedly into the box and forgot it. 

You sent that prayer this morning, 

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didn’t you? You carefully made your 
declarations for right and offset the 
wrong thoughts. You addressed your 
prayer to the All Highest and only 
ONE. But what did you do after you 
had sent it? You had a string of worry 
attached to it, and kept pulling it back 
to you to see if you could not add an- 
other word, or to see if it were really 
“made.” All morning long you doubted 
and at evening you still doubted, and 
the next morning you sent another 
prayer; but it, too, was attached by a 
string of doubt and fear and did not get 
far. 

Several days after you sent the letter 
you received an answer which read: “I 
have your letter of such and such a 
date;” and you recalled that you had 
written a letter. Still you didn’t rush 


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out of doors and stop every passer-by 
and say, “I sent a letter and got a re- 
ply,” and then elaborated on how you 
went through the whole affair, how you 
had hunted for paper and spilled the 
ink, or lost your pencil, etc. No, you 
accepted the letter, read it, got the 
benefit from it and went on your way. 

And finally, in a half-hearted way, 
the poor little prayer which only half 
loosened, came back to you with a ray 
of light and you rushed to your nearest 
neighbor and said: “I had a demon- 

stration — you see it was this way, etc.” 

“O ye of little faith!” Why don’t 
you cut the strings of worry that are 
attached to your every thought and 
“loose it and let it go ?” Have the same 
faith back of your prayer that you have 
back of the letter and it will return to 


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you with greater certainty and with 
surer reward. 

Away out in the front lines while the 
battle was raging, a carrier pigeon was 
let loose with a message, and as he dis- 
appeared into the distance, fading away 
into the limpid blue of the sky, no 
worried thought hampered his voyage. 
When they ‘‘loosed him and let him go” 
they knew that he would fly to his desti- 
nation and results would follow. 

Who has not felt the perfect faith of 
a child in St. Nicholas? They ask for 
their heart’s desire and are never left 
without some expression of love. When 
ye ask, ask as believing ye shall receive. 
You don’t go into a store and ask the 
clerk for a certain article and then chase 
madly about repeating the request a 
thousand times. You ask and then 


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wait. And so when we learn to ask 
and wait — wait with the patience which 
is absolute faith — then we shall con- 
stantly receive the reply, the reward 
that is rightfully ours. “Ask and ye 
shall receive; knock and it shall be 
opened unto you; seek and ye shall 
find.” Don’t knock and at the same 
time try to force an entrance by the 
window. The master of the house will 
take you for a robber and only bar his 
doors heavier. 

And so as you send a letter send your 
prayers — let them go forth unhampered, 
untrammeled by fear, worry or care. 
Don’t stampede your thoughts 1 — a multi- 
tude of assertions accomplish nothing, 
they only congest your thinking. Speak 
to your Father in secret, and he will re- 
ward thee openly. 


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Realization 

















Realization 


TOP waiting and start realizing. 
“All things are possible to the 
man who believes and who 
trusts in God.” You don’t have to wait 
for the Kingdom of Heaven until you 
die. You cannot die into it, and long 
years of waiting will not bring it any 
nearer, for “The Kingdom of Heaven 
is at hand.” NOW is your keynote — 
stop living in the future and get into the 
NOW of your life. 

Wherever this finds you, look about 
you and see what percent of your life 
you really live in waiting, expecting 
something that is coming, and never 
grasping the idea that it is all here right 
now. 



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“Act as possessing all thinp-s.” 
Jesus’ mission on earth was to set aside 
all old ideas of material growth. He 
didn’t have to spend long years digging 
in the mountains to find gold with 
which to pay his taxes. He turned to 
the illimitable source of supply which 
was at hand to bless, and drew his sub- 

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stance — his gold. He did not have to 
plant wheat, cultivate it and worry 
along with it in order to have bread to 
feed the multitude. He just reached 
out into the storehouse of the all-pres- 
ent Mind and realized that it was the 
substance of all things and that what 
he needed to do was to realize it. He 
realized all things and always acknowl- 
eged their presence before they were 
seen with the material eye. For we 
read that he “raised his eyes to heaven 


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(centered his attention on the inex- 
haustible source) and gave thanks.” 
Yes, he gave thanks before he could 
see it. Why? Because he knew that 
God is the source of all there is and that 
he abundantly supplied his ideas with 
that which was needful. Not gold in 
the desert, where there was nothing to 
buy, but water. The mind of God is 
logical — it is logic — it works in rythm 
— in cadence — and never loses or gains 
in action, but is a steady perpetual mo- 
tion. 

“God is in his heaven — all is well with 
the world.” “The Kingdom of Heaven 
is at hand” — “The Kingdom of Heaven 
is within you.” Only believe, and all 
things are yours. “Now is the accepted 
time” — right now, while you are read- 
ing this. Right now while I am writ- 


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ing “is the accepted time” to bring 
about realization, to live it, to sing it, 
to go about our Father’s business, using 
his inexhaustible supply. Absence of 
God in our thoughts is the only thing 
that can keep away demonstration. 
Where God is, there is an abundance of 
all things — he feeds us on his ideas. 

You think you lack love, money, 
home, etc., but what you really lack is 
the consciousness of God. If He were 
dwelling in your thoughts continually 
these things would be added. Jesus 
did not worry about hotel accommoda- 
tions when he went from place to place, 
he simply knew that “the upper cham- 
ber” was always ready for him. All 
things are mental before they are ex- 
pressed in the material. Then speak 
the word out: “My word shall not re 


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turn unto me void, but shall accomplish 
whereunto it is sent.” What a wonder- 
ful command to leave with us, and he 
has said that “the things I do, ye shall 
do also — and even greater.” He spoke 
the word to the sea and it was calm; he 
spoke supply to tangible existence; he 
spoke health to light; and “the things 
I do, ye shall do also.” 

Wake up your realization — make it 
part of your daily task to realize things 
for right now. Act as possessing all 
things. “When ye pray, believe that 
ye shall have these things.” The Bible 
is vibrant with help and instructions for 
the NOW-ness of our lives — constantly 
are we invited to live now. 

Start realization to work today — 
realize that you have God’s love with 
you right now — and as you grow from 


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step to step you will see the “word 
made flesh” you will feel the thrill of 
this present PRESENCE. Keep say- 
ing to yourself, “Now is the accepted 
time — now is the day of salvation.” 
There is no material law that can hold 
you back — the way is clear and the 
open door is through this consciousness 
of Realization. 


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Your Talent 














Your Talent 



ID you know that you had a spe- 
cial something, a special, pe- 
culiar little something that 
made you different from the whole 
world? Of course you did; but you 
never dreamed that it would enable you 
to step out of the ugly grey mass of 
routine living and give you a little place 
all of your own. No, I don’t mean that 
it would make a queen or a mighty 
monarch of you, but it will make you 
infinitely greater; and this little some- 
thing that lies wrapped in the napkin 
of fear, and which you only visit in the 
very secret closet of your own imagina- 
tion, is your Talent. 

You’ve been so used to fading out of 


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sight and being a member of those who 
accept all things, that you never even 
made an effort to see what you would 
really be like if you “cut loose” once 
and let this little seed in you take root 
and flower. 

In your heart of hearts is written 
your name — a name which is peculiar 
to you and which no other idea has — 
and it is this name, this something, 
which is to be brought out, to be made 
great. 

Mariah was from far off Russia. She 
worked hard in the fields with her 
sisters and brothers, but something 
kept whispering to her. Something 
within stirred — it was talent which was 
working itself out of the napkin. It 
pointed the way out across the land far 
across the seas into a strange place that 


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she knew not of; but a fearlessness led 
her on, and every day the way was 
made clearer, until at last she found her- 
self in her place — a place which was 
waiting for her in a land where few 
spoke her tongue; but that place was 
hers and the Talent led her to it and it 
was a place of growth and success, of 
happiness and harmony. 

So within you the Talent keeps whis- 
pering and trying to edge its way out 
of the napkin of your fear, but you keep 
wrapping it tighter with new illusions 
and will not let it come to the light. 
You are afraid to do what it bids you 
do. “What would people say.” You 
are overcome with the fear that other 
people would say things. They in- 
timidate you into a state of “greyness” 
you don’t dare to come out and be your- 


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self. You coward! — you are afraid to 
live your life — the life that you cherish 
above all things. You are scared to be- 
come great because it means work and 
it means hewing to the line and letting 
the world take care of itself. Let them 
talk — their gossiping and sneers will 
soon be turned into hero worship. They 
are the “grey mass” to which you be- 
longed and they change with the wind. 
Don’t mind them when they say, “You 
cannot,” or “Aren’t you afraid to do 
that?” These very voices will be say- 
ing, "I always knew that you would 
make a go of it.” 

Here’s what you need: It’s more 

communion with God. Take Him at 
His word and trust Him to the last let- 
ter of His promises. He wants to bless 
you — to manifest Himself through you, 


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to make your talent shine forth' — and 
He’s the only partner you need in life’s 
business. You need Him and you 
need His instructions. “Get wisdom.” 
Wisdom comes from cutting away 
from the worldly things and turning 
your attention to Love — childlike (not 
childish) and simple. 

Your place is waiting for you — it is 
the place of your desires, if your de- 
sires are good — it is beckoning you, and 
God is willing to lead you there and to 
call you by the secret name which is 
written in the tablet of your heart. 

Can’t you just let go? Can’t you just 
break away from all the old things and 
plunge forth guided by this Talent — 
by this name — and live your own life? 
By so doing you will be losing your ma- 
terial sense of life, and find that which 


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is real, that which is eternal and last- 
ing. When the material napkin which 
is holding your Talent from the light 
is taken away, then you are wrapped in 
the substance of Mind, which is in- 
finite and in which you can go on un- 
folding, growing grander, nobler and 
lovelier each succeeding year. 


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I Am That Which I Desire 

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I Am That Which I Desire to Be 


0 YOU know the secret of life? 
Do you know the password 
which will open all closed doors? 
Do you know the thrill of real life? 
Would you like to feel continually as 
you do on some fine spring morning, 
when the sun is just peeping through 
the rose and turquoise and flirting with 
a million diamond dewdrops ? 

YOU CAN. 

Here is the password for you: 

“I am that which I desire to be.” 

One moment, please. Use no head- 
strong, blind and stubborn will power. 
Use no struggling, mental gymnastics, 
and contort your mind by vainly declar- 
ing so many words. 



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LISTEN: 

You remember who “I AM THAT I 
AM” is, don’t you? It is the name of 
every living man. Because “I AM” 
has sent me. My name is “I AM.” 
Your name is “I AM.” 

What did “I AM” send you here for, 
but to give expression to Himself; to 
give expression to love, beauty, holi- 
ness, harmony, happiness? Take your 
Bible down from the shelf and find out 
what the attributes of -God are. They 
are peace, holiness, happiness, beauty. 

Your means of communication with 
God is called prayer, and prayer is de- 
sire. Doesn’t it begin to look simple? 
You have your “I AM” and your mean- 
ing for “desire.” And since all good 
comes from God, who is good, then 
even your desires are in reality the “still 


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small voice” seeking utterance in you — 
yes, your very desires are (in reality in 
so far as they are good) the open lines 
of communication — are the messages 
from God to you. 

Did you ever desire to be that which 
you are not? Did you ever desire to be 
strong, well, happy and well supplied? 
Aren’t these all good desires? Where 
did they come from? From the base, 
so-called mortal mind? 

You never stopped to realize, did you, 
that your desires are the embryonic for- 
mations waiting to be made manifest 
in the flesh? “Thy will be done” — let 
thyself be manifested in me. 

“As a man thinketh in his heart so 
is he.” What are you thinking? 

“Now are we the sons of God” — 
NOW, in great glowing, vibrant letters. 


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No matter what you were an hour or a 
minute or even a year ago — ‘‘NOW are 
we the sons of God.” NOW — think 
about the present possibility of the 
word — NOW. 

The pattern which moulds our de- 
sires is already cast for us “Sons of 
God.” Then desire to be what you are 
— a child of the King. Are you acting 
to the full extent of your nobility? 
“Seek (in prayer desire) the Kingdom 
of Heaven (which is within) and all 
things shall be added.” 

“All things are yours.” “You are 
that which you desire to be NOW.” 


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Camilla 





















Camilla 


AMILLA is not a story book 
character, she is not a creature 
manufactured to suit the issue, 
she is a real, live woman — a nun, living 
in an old grey stone convent which is 
situated on a beautiful mountain which 
overlooks the winding Moselle River. 

We met her one morning coming 
from the little chapel where she had 
been at prayer. It was a clear morn- 
ing with a high blue sky, the faint per- 
fume of wild mountain flowers and 
vegetation was in the air — the year was 
at spring. As she stepped out into the 
open she seemed to fit perfectly with 
the setting, as if she were the personifi- 
cation of youth eternal. As she passed 



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us she did not shyly cast her eyes to the 
ground, but looked up at us with wide- 
open blue eyes — eyes full of lovely fear- 
lessness, eyes full of depth and wonder; 
eyes of youth with the wisdom of ages 
shining through them. This woman 
had youth in her grasp — clear, firm, 
white skin with a transparency to it; 
lips red and full of expression — youth 
was so evident that it made itself felt. 

“Not a minute over eighteen,” said 
one of us. But Camilla was a woman 
who would soon count her years sixty. 
Later in the day I talked with her, and 
here is how she did it. 

“At twenty I found myself practically 
an old woman, both in mind and body. 
I was weary and life was more or less 
of a burden to me, and it was at this 
time I became a nun. Soon after I be- 


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gan to study the ‘Word’ it came to me 
that I had never really lived, that the 
sense of fleeting youth which I had was 
nothing but a shadow — a shadow of the 
real youth which was eternal and ever- 
lasting. I soon realized that God could 
not grow old, not in the sense of decay; 
that nature never grew old — she re- 
newed herself annually — and gradually 
I came to know that if God could not 
grow old that Man — His idea and 
image and likeness — could not age. 

“In seeking the Kingdom of Heaven 
first we are told that all things shall be 
added to us. In seeking the Kingdom 
of Heaven we are seeking youth, joy, 
harmony, happiness. The Kingdom is 
not made up of aged persons, it is vi- 
brant with youth eternal ; and finally I 
began to realize that I was a part of the 


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Kingdom of Heaven and that in reality 
I was only seeking my true self. 

“ ‘Seek and ye shall find; knock and it 
shall be opened unto you; ask and ye 
shall receive,’ so I went forth seeking 
the real life. As God was everywhere 
present I found Him expressed in all 
nature. I found Him expressed in His 
universe — and I was of His universe, 
in fact I was a part of it — not a part 
from it. Just like the lovely force 
which impelled the rose to cover her 
vines with snowy white blossoms, I 
found that power growing and grow- 
ing in me, swelling up in me, until one 
day I felt the complete thrill — the ‘Di- 
vine spark’' — which awakened in me 
and made me feel this rejuvenation 
taking place. God is everywhere and 
He is life eternal and youth eternal. If 


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He is eternal youth and is everywhere 
I could literally bathe in youth. Not 
only that, but I felt that I was a part 
of the whole scheme and drew my life, 
my vitality, my youth from the same 
source which impelled the whole plan. 
Yonder on the mountain the grey mist 
hovered and swayed over the crest, the 
sun plunged through it and then the 
blue patch showed in the distance. The 
heather on the foothills was like a flash 
of purple, the white hawthorn tree 
glistened in the warm sun, and I a part 
of it all, vibrated with youth eternal. 

“I learned to love it all — love the 
whole plan like one loves the members 
of his own household — nothing was un- 
lovely when viewed rightly and every- 
thing yielded to the touch of its gentle- 
ness — the touch of love. If it rained I 


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went about my duties with a feeling 
that everything was being purified — 
that everything was being filled full of 
purity — and I too drank deeply of 
purity. If the sun poured down upon 
me, I felt it making a halo about me of 
pure gold — gold that would endure. I 
felt it sifted joy all about me and filled 
the throats of the birds with glorious 
notes, and so I sang and thrilled for life. 
If the wind blew and raged about, I was 
happy yet in the thought that things 
were being changed about. This was 
a readjustment; old dead leaves were 
caught up and carried off — dust was 
moved from secluded corners — read- 
justment was taking place — and so I 
felt the readjustment enter me — the 
power to say, ‘Not mine — but thine be 
done.’ In winter when the snow fell I 


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knew that everything in this universe 
was busily engaged working and study- 
ing, unfolding and getting ready for 
greater growth. 

And so I learned from the weather 
that after all it was but for a lesson to 
us — that we should rejoice regardless 
what the manifestation was. Further, 
I began to realize that not only was I 
seeking youth, happiness harmony, but 
that I was youth, happiness, harmony.” 

Just then a band of happy youngsters 
came running up the hill and caught 
Camilla in their arms — grabbing onto 
her long black skirts — youth had sought 
youth and found it and bore her off 
down into the flower-dotted valley. 
Camilla was sixty — the world called her 
sixteen. 


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Before the Sandman Comes 



Before the Sandman Comes 


ID you ever invite the Sandman 
over to see you and have him 
turn you down? Or have you 
ever waked up in the night and found 
that half a dozen long, never-ending, 
black hours were awaiting you before 
morning would come? I know you 
have, and I know that sometimes you 
have tried that old trick of self-hypno- 
tism of counting the sheep as they went 
over the fence and found that it, too, 
failed; and at last in sheer despair you 
have tossed and tumbled about and 
mentally flayed yourself into a state of 
absolute fatigue. Did you know that 
there was a sure and direct way leading 

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into Slumberland? — so easy to travel, 



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so inviting and interesting; strewn 
along the way with drowsy, nodding 
poppies and heavy-scented white lilies, 
and ever so often a nodding little sleepy- 
head child all cuddled up so comfy and 
securely in its mother’s arms, and pres- 
ently such a happy, snuggy feeling 
comes to you that you let go and tumble 
off the cliff of dreams into the land of 
forgetfulness. Let me show you that 
road. 

When you wake, always remember 
that “I shall be satisfied when I awake 
in Thy likeness,” and what is that like- 
ness? One of its attributes is “Love,” 
so we will start with that. “When I 
awake in Thy (Love’s) likeness I shall 
be satisfied.” You are already awake 
in an atmosphere of Love, for “In Him 
you live and move and have your 


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being.” Now the way to bring this 
Love into your mind is to put it into 
use — start loving — and to do this you 
begin forgiving. Forgive Mr. X' — 
that little resentment which you hold 
against him, and Mrs. Blank the hurt 
that you received from her words. Take 
them by the hand and lead them out 
“Through green pastures” and “Beside 
still waters.” Say to them, “I forgive 
you ; I have nothing in my heart against 
you — nothing in my heart against any- 
body, for I love the whole world.” 
Such a feeling will come to you — such 
a contented, peaceful feeling, and you 
will be all aglow with the flame of real 
Love; and finally, as you go on your 
way forgiving you will come to your 
own poor self standing there — that 
poor old dear which you have so hate- 


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fully accused of all sorts of wrongs, of 
sickness, sin and death. You have 
fastened all these things on it, and it 
needs to be forgiven, too. “Neither do 
I condemn thee, go and sin no more.” 
Now you have loosed everything, even 
your own self, and no wonder you lie 
there and radiate and radiate love. 

And at last as you ponder on the 
wonders of Love and the thrill of for- 
giveness, you will feel the soft feathers 
of His wings folding about you. They 
will hover over you and the “Everlast- 
ing arms” will take you up ever so 
gently, and with your head snugly 
nestled against your Father’s breast you 
will be borne off into that haven of rest 
— and shall arise therefrom, glowing 
with newness of life and purpose. 

And so the next time the Sandman 


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won’t come to see you, you try this plan 
of forgiving the whole world and see if 
a sweeter sense of peace does not come 
to you than you have ever experienced 
before. A tired and wornout soldier 
boy tried this one dark night when it 
seemed that the enemy was pretty 
thick and that they were pretty near 
and were doing their best to keep him 
awake, but when he walked with them 
through green pastures and beside still 
waters, and when he “anointed their 
heads with the oil of forgiveness,” the 
noise of the guns didn’t matter any 
more, and the unrest and fear all faded 
away and he went over the cliff of 
dreamland. 


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My Cup Runneth Over 


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My Cup Runneth Over 


HOU anoint’st my head with oil, 
Slj/ my cup runneth over,” sang the 
psalmist. The cup of our de- 
sire is to be filled with joy — not only 
filled, but filled to running over. The 
cup of our desire is a complete willing- 
ness to let God enter your life and there 
have full sway. “The Lord is in His 
holy temple, let all the earth rejoice.” 
And then we read that the temple is 
the body. Now the Lord is in the 
midst of us — He is in our very midst 
and is filling the cup of our desire to 
the brim and running it over. 

Like the mountain spring rushes, 
gushes down the mountain sides, fills 
the basin full — yes, full to overflowing 


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— and the surplus waters the valley be- 
neath, so God is filling our hearts with 
the spontaneous, live-giving joy which, 
when we let it run over on all sides, 
blesses and heals all who come in con- 
tact with it. It’s an impersonal matter 
— you let your cup be so full of joy and 
take no thought where it is going to 
run over — everything in the universe 
thrives on joy. Even your dog knows 
when the joy is running over, because 
you meet him with a dash, with a snap, 
and he responds with the same joy; 
your best friend responds immediately 
to your joy, he slaps you on the back or 
puts his arm over your shoulder; he is 
happy to see you, to bask for a while in 
your joy. The child in the street 
greets you with the smile you give it. 
The man in the street feels helped by 


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your joy. Let your joy be so spon- 
taneous, let it flow; let it burst up in 
the midst of a desert of gloom and see 
its oily, soothing effect on the crowd. 

You have a reason to be happy — 
there is a reason of the faith which is 
within you. Floodtides of love are 
open to you, and constantly flowing to 
you, and you are but the channel, open 
and free for it to pass through. Then 
relax, let go of the stiff formal life 
where you are always under a mask, 
afraid of public opinion, afraid that 
something will happen if you let your- 
self be natural. Sure something will 
happen, and that something is that you 
will find yourself a new creature in 
Christ Jesus — the new mind will be in 
you — the new name will be written 
upon your forehead and ye shall be 
called blessed. 

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Hatred cannot stand the power of 
joy; a joyful man can outwit and over- 
come it at every turn in the road ; anger 
is turned aside by joy; sin is blasted 
and withered in the presence of this 
holy substance, for it finds not its 
pleasure in the senses, but in right 
doing, in clear thinking and in purity. 
Real joy is born of purity — its motive 
power is right doing — it glories in the 
fact that it is reflecting the “Word” — 
that it is in reality “The Word made 
flesh.” It goes about its work singing 
not a foolish little ditty, but a lofty 
psalm of praise which is more felt than 
heard. 

So in the morning, when you turn 
over for that last forty winks, just have 
a little talk with your “friend” self and 
decide to begin the day with joy. See 


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if you cannot get that full-to-overflow- 
ing feeling in your heart — let it gush 
up in you, that great feeling that “I am 
one with God” — I am one with the very 
source of joy. I can go about my work 
with the real song on my lips and in my 
heart. I will flood everywhere that I 
go with light and joy, like the sun floods 
the earth. "Still, still with thee when 
purple morning breaketh” — always 
with God. No matter where you make 
your bed, you turn hell into heaven be- 
cause you know "if I make my bed in 
hell thou art there,” and where God is, 
is heaven. 

He has anointed your head with oil 
— your cup is running over with joy — 
you are joy. Then go forth and give 
to the starving world' — fill all their 
vessels full of the blessed substance. 


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The Other Fellow 




The Other Fellow 


CAN’T help it,” said the young 
student with a bitter wave of 
self-pity, “while I want to do the 
right thing the other fellow always 
wants to do the wrong. While I wouldn’t 
deal unjustly with anyone, knowingly, 
yet the other fellow seems to take a 
keen pride in 'getting by’ with all sorts 
of injustices.” 

Did you ever come to this place? Did 
you ever seem to stand in this fellow’s 
shoes: that while you loved, you be- 
lieved that the other fellow hated? 
That, while you lived in accordance with 
your highest knowledge of Truth, you 
manifested all sorts of ailments, while 
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perfect health? That while you studied 
and prayed to be christlike, you believed 
that the other fellow derived all the 
benefits — that he received the things you 
wanted and needed? 

Of course you have; and you have 
also believed that while you were more 
or less righteous (that is, at least, you 
desire to be) that your path was beset 
with thorns, while the other fellow 
tread along a path of roses and ‘lived 
by the way,’ indulging in all sorts of 
worldly pleasures. 

And then you have wondered and 
wondered why. And right here a 
great big wedge of despair would force 
its way into your mind and make you 
blue and unhappy. 

Suppose two men started to build 
houses side by side, and one of them 


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would drive a nail and then hurry and 
look around to see what the other was 
doing, and because he saw the other 
making a move which “he considered 
false,” he would finally get so that his 
gaze was constantly on the other fel- 
low, and he would whack away at his 
own house without looking to see 
where he drove his nails. True, after 
a time he would be able to drive a nail 
reasonably well without looking at it, 
but a good many other errors would 
creep into the construction while he 
was watching the other fellow make 
what he called “some mistake.” At 
nightfall he would be not only physi- 
cally fatigued, but would be a mental 
wreck as well, because he had spent 
the day assuming one of the most im- 
portant of duties — and at the same time 


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a forbidden one — that of judging. God 
has lovingly relieved you of this un- 
pleasant duty — you don’t have to judge 
anything or anybody, for He takes care 
of this and rewards accordingly. 
“Judge not from appearances.” How 
often it seems that something is being 
entirely destroyed when only way is 
being made for something much more 
wonderful and better. The breaking 
of the tiny blue shell of the robin’s egg 
does not spell disaster, as might be 
thought from the appearances; no, it 
is an evidence of greater progress. So 
it is with man; often the thing that is 
taking place in him, the development 
which is going on, is a tearing down, a 
reconstruction which seems grossest 
error to us. 

Get real busy looking within, for 


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there you will find the Kingdom of 
Heaven, and forget the other fellow in 
so far as criticism is concerned; put 
him entirely out of your mind, and 
spend your time getting the napkin 
(mortal bondage) off your own talent 
so that it can come to light and grow. 

Listen! “Ye shall be like a tree 
planted by the side of a river” — a great 
majestic, swaying tree — sweeping the 
water’s edge and touching the sky. 
Out yonder the mushroom may spring 
into prominence in a single day, while 
you are yet a struggling twig — and 
your growth may be slow and even tire- 
some at times- — but when a little flurry 
of mortal mind takes place, when a 
little rain descends, the mushroom 
topples over and drops into the dust, 
and you are helped on by these storms. 
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cling closer to the real principle of life. 
After a while in your growth you sit 
for some sunny moment and look back 
and remember only faintly the little 
mushroom which so troubled you. Long 
ago it passed into oblivion — long ago it 
fell into the dust, and you smile in- 
wardly that you ever bothered to ‘‘won- 
der why” and be discouraged because it 
seemed to be getting all the benefits 
and you doing all the work. 

You want to take with you this little 
word — “Judge not from appearances.” 
Let the other fellow develop through 
whatever lines that seem best for him — 
you are concerned only in helping 
him when you can. You can let him 
unfold in the particular way that is best 
for him, for “He watching over Israel 
neither slumbers nor sleeps” and is the 
only true Judge. 


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A Divided Kingdom 


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A Divided Kingdom 


HAT little kingdom that you call 
your very own — look at it, ex- 
amine into it. Is it divided? 
Are you of one mind and that one the 
mind that was also in Christ Jesus? 

Do you believe that some people love 
while others hate you? If you do, then 
your kingdom is divided. “Love and 
hate cannot mingle” — there is no com- 
mon basis for them to meet on, and they 
cannot dwell in the same kingdom with- 
out causing strife, turmoil and finally a 
division in the kingdom. If you endow 
that man with a power to hate you, 
what good is it for you to say to your- 
self, “There is naught but love?” What 
good for you to say, “Love is all power- 



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ful?” Your kingdom is divided and it 
will fall. Perhaps it will not be utterly 
cast down, but it will be at strife. 
Enemies are not for the purpose of re- 
tarding your growth, but to aid you to 
cling closer and closer to this great, all- 
absorbing Love which heals everything, 
even so-called hate. 

Do you believe that matter is the 
original creator — do you think that the 
original sin, which is the very founda- 
tion of the lie that life is in matter and 
hence creation is matter, possible? If 
you do your kingdom is divided, and 
what good is it, or what profiteth it 
for you to declare the nothingness of 
matter? Do you believe that Love is 
both spiritual and sensual — and say to 
yourself, “Suffer it to be so now?” If 
you do, your kingdom is divided and 


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will fall. It will be of little merit or 

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profit to say there is no sin and that it 
has no power, while you are indulging 
the senses. The divided kingdom will 
tell its own tale when it lies in a heap 
in the dust. 

Do you believe in sickness to the ex- 
tent that certain things are more diffi- 
cult than others — that there are so- 
called “stubborn cases” which do not 
yield at once? Do you believe in this 
and also try to believe that God is 
Health and that He is ever present and 
that He is all powerful? Then the Di- 
vided power will finally cleave to one 
of your arguments and in your direst 
need who shall say that it will not be 
to the belief in stubborn cases. 

Do you believe that you have to 
probe deep into the minds of the way- 


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farer and find out all his little personal 
secrets in order to pronounce some cer- 
tain thing the cause of his trouble? 
This isn’t love, but a morbid curiosity 
which is hiding behind the veneer of 
Truth which you hold up to your 
patient. Soon the divided kingdom 
will no longer be a storehouse of the 
Word of God, but a storehouse or a 
madhouse of little petty, personal 
secrets about this one and that. 

Your kingdom is the ever present 
NOW — flowing with milk and honey, 
a place of light and joy — it is the sheep- 
fold with open doors by which all may 
go in and out with perfect assurance 
that therein they will find healing 
waters and green pastures of rest and 
strength. Set the walls of your king- 
dom to the line — make its four walls 


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true to the standard laid down in the 
Book. You can do this; start today by 
taking a positive stand for God. Build 
daily with words of love and light. Fill 
the well of your heart with love — let it 
overflow so that the thirsty may drink 
freely. For every error which you 
have been telling and repeating, start 
a word of truth in its stead; every time 
you want to utter an unkind word, stop 
a moment and find one of your soldiers 
who is on the side of good and send him 
out. Good words are the soldiers who 
are fighting on the side of right, and 
bad words the soldiers of darkness. 
When you bring out a whole battalion 
of these wicked soldiers and turn them 
loose in your attempt to picture your 
brother, you are throwing all your 
weight in the balance of evil. Words 

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are the expression of thoughts — so 
many bad words represent so many 
bad thoughts and vice versa. 

If you will try for a single day to use 
nothing but your good soldiers — don't 
even allow a bad soldier to show him- 
self, let alone be used — you will find 
that by noon of the first day you will 
have won a victory that you never 
dreamed of. Keep firing away with 
good words at the objective you wish 
to win and it will soon be yours. Don’t 
repeat error of any sort, don’t even say 
the words, and finally good words with 
their subsequent good deeds and re- 
sults will be the rule instead of the ex- 
ception in your life, and wonderful dis- 
coveries will come to you and with it 
a great, grand feeling of a kingdom 
which is whole — a kingdom which is 
not divided and which will stand. 

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Let There Be Light 

HE troop train jogged along at 
a disgustingly slow gait, stop- 
ping at intervals and making 
long, tiresome waits. Night finally 
came on and darkness hovered about 
like a heavy black mantle. There was 
a period of quiet. Finally at the far 
end of the boxcar a soldier found a stub 
of a candle in his kit, and lit it. '‘Oh, 
light,” was the murmur that went 
around the crowd, and then a mad 
scramble ensued to get near it. Some 
to read, others to sit in it, and others 
to get a view of it — but one thing for 
sure — all were seeking it. The light 
“drew all men unto it.” 

And so is it with the waiting world 



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— they are all hungry for light. They 
have lived in the dark, damp cave of 
mortal reasoning long enough and are 
groping for the sunlight of truth. 
Darkness and ignorance go hand in 
hand, and with them sin and death — 
they are of one and the same fabric. 
In the darkened cloisters of an old ca- 
thedral you will find the faithful pray- 
ing a prayer of ignorance — a prayer of 
beseeching and begging instead of 
‘'realization” — “All things are yours,” 
“All that the Father has is thine.” 
Come out into the light of understand- 
ing and acknowledge that which is 
already yours — or thrill with the joy 
of gratitude. 

No wonder the Master said, “Let 
there be light.” When he said “Let” 
he did not mean that we were to stay 


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on bended knees for hours begging for 
light. “Let” in this sense means “per- 
mit or allow.” Then He said, “Let 
your light to shine before men.’’ You 
have a light all of your own — it is the 
individuality of you, it is the you of 
you — and this light is the Light of Love 
which is filtered through your mind — 
which is reflected by you — which you 
let loose through the channel provided. 
Did you know that you were a “Keeper 
of Light?” a “Keeper” not in the sense 
of hoarding up light — for such a thing 
were impossible — but a keeper as the 
“Keeper of Light” in the lighthouse 
tower. You have but to keep your mind 
open and free from worldly darkness — 
to keep the lenses of your mind polished 
and shining — to give forth this light so 
abundantly that “All men shall be 
drawn unto you.” 


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I care not what your business may 
be, if you bring “Light” into it you will 
“Draw all men unto you” — you will 
draw all success and happiness unto it. 
For the darkened world is searching 
for a gleam of light and will find you no 
matter what your location or how far 
you may seem removed from the rest 
of the world. “Ye are the light of the 
world” — the light which is within the 
tower on the hill cannot be hid — 
neither can your light be obscured. 

Did you know that with that simple 
yet majestic command, “Let there be 
light,” you have the “open sesame” to 
all material problems? That all doors 
are opened before it, and no complica- 
tion of mortal reasoning or doings can 
withstand the potency of it ! When 
the day is breaking what a wonderful 


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prayer to say in your heart of hearts : 
“Let there be light” to guide me 
through this day. What a wonderful 
day of light would be yours; it would 
come flooding and streaming in on you 
as you went your way, until men would 
recognize you as a “Keeper of Light” 
and would come to you to seek the light 
on their problems. “Let there be 
light” may be just the thing — just the 
prayer — that you need to break the ice 
of materialism and free the imprisoned 
river of your activity. 

If your mind is full of light, then no 
darkness can enter there — no igno- 
rance, sin or death — for Light and 
Life are one and are eternal. Let a 
soft, white, glowing light of Truth 
accompany you, be a part of your 
speech and a part of your life — let it 


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enfold you like a mantle “white and 
glistening.” Jesus did this, and those 
•who came within reach of Him were 
healed by the light. 

Light shining on the darkness of 
earth draws from it the secret of the 
flowers — draws from the dead, dense 
mentality the flowers of hope, fruits of 
use and trees of strength. So turn your 
light inward sometimes and let it shine 
on the darkened corridors of your mind. 
Make a lighthouse of your darkened 
chambers — fill them with praise — put 
on the garments of light. "Arise and 
shine for thy light has come, and the 
glory of the Lord has risen upon thee.” 
“Let your light so shine before men.” 
Only, I say, “Let.” “Be still” and let. 
“Ye are the light of this world — a light 
that is set upon a hill cannot be hid.” 




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